IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72235 accession number: C.1568-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 19 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white and painted in blue. Circular with a narrow rim, and shallow well. The front is decorated overall with a highly detailed depiction the Capture of Chagres, over which is a scroll inscribed 'The taking of CHAGRE in/the West Indies by Adm' vernon/A. The Town./ B. The Castle./ C.C. the Custom-house on fire.D.D./ 2 Spanish guarda costa sloops./E.E.E. Goods from ye Custom-house./F.F. Bomb. Ketches./G. Flag of truce hung out by ye Span.' On the back there are four Chinese-inspired floral sprays. In the background there are wooded hills inscribed with 'The Road from Portobello', and 'The Road to Panama', The river is inscribed 'River Chagre' in three places, and there are several letters attached to other features. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Joseph Flower, Bristol; by descent to James Flower Fussell, Abbots Leigh, Bristol, 1873; Mrs E.J. Swann, Leigh Woods, Bristol; bought from Mrs Swann in 1915 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72235 SUBJECTS ------------------- Capture of Chagres Capture of Chagres TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1741 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1741 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Bristol pottery maker: Flower, Joseph DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 45 dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Black Atlantic: Power | People | Resistance CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance Delftware. The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Naval Ceramics --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1568_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 600 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1568_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 633 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1568_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 600 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1568_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 317 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1568_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 741 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1568_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 488 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1568_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 741 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1568_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 244 pixels width: 250 pixels